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Arabella M. Willson
A little-known 19th-century biographer, remembered for writing about the three wives of missionary Adoniram Judson. Her surviving record is sparse, but her work reflects the religious and reform-minded biography popular in the 1850s.
1 Audiobook
Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons
by Arabella M. Willson
About the author
Arabella M. Willson was an American writer active in the mid-19th century. Library sources connected with her public-domain work identify her as flourishing around 1851, and some records also list her under the name Arabella W. Stuart.
She is chiefly known for Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons, a collective biography of Ann, Sarah, and Emily Judson, the three wives of Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson. The book has remained visible through later public-domain and audiobook catalogs, which is why her name still appears even though few personal biographical details seem to be well documented.
Because the available sources are so limited, much about her life remains uncertain. What can be said with confidence is that she was a biographer whose known work fit the strong 19th-century interest in missionary history, women's lives, and religious example.